Think I have figured why my 5970 is fubared.

Whenever I try running this on it the current and vrm temps go haywire.
Switching to this my vrm temps almost instantly went from low 90's to 137+.

Similar massive spike on vddc current.

Anyone else have problems with 5970 card with this project or do I just have a faulty card?

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I had a similar problem with an older Power Color 4750 when DNETC started. The card was already out of warranty & I removed the cooling fan unit. I found that the manufacturer applied only a drop of heat- paste covering only part of the GPU.
I applied CPU paste and it was fine.
The current spike sounds abnormal. I run full OCed cards and the voltage stays the same on all of them under full load
I think your card is faulty

It croaked...again.
Back to a GTS 250.

Card is under warranty but seller went bust.
Doesn't seem to be any U.K Sapphire support.

C'est la vie.

Power hog anyway.

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It croaked...again.

You mean your 5970 is broken for good? How does that problem manifest itself?

I had problems with my 5970 few weeks ago and it's now offline pending further analysis. But it seems it might have died since every time BOINC/Moo adds any load to the card, it will just hang the whole workstation. Sometimes there's also some funky colors seen on the monitor at the same time.. :(

-w